Oleg Bryjak
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| Native name | Олег Брижак |
| Born |
27 October 1960 Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 24 March 2015 (aged 54) Prads-Haute-Bléone, France |
| Cause of death | Killed onboard Germanwings Flight 9525 |
| Occupation | Opera singer |
| Employer | Deutsche Oper am Rhein |
Oleg Bryjak (Ukrainian: Олег Брижак, 27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
Bryjak had been a protodeacon in an Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.
Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner when Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in Prads-Haute-Bléone, France, during their return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
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